http://geekblok.com B10m, BOK, Joffie - old geeks on a blog Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:43:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As some of you know, I’ve been messing with Fire Eagle for some time now already (I was lucky enough to get an invitation) and yesterday I noticed the site went public. That means you, yeah you, can sign up now too. But what is and does Fire Eagle? Not a ... http://geekblok.com/2008/08/13/fire-eagle-opens-to-public/ Every once in the several years I am a little too quick at the keyboard and manage to wipe a part of my home directory. I refuse to alias rm to rm -i because I always know what I am doing (Yeah right). Yesterday it happened again. I managed to ctrl-c ... http://geekblok.com/2008/06/18/rm-rf/ With a plethora of social websites, it’s hard to keep track of everything. And like with all itches, people will try to make money out of it and come up with sites like FriendFeed, Lifestream, etc. But what if you want to build something similar yourself? You’d have to download all ... http://geekblok.com/2008/06/13/streaming-your-life-with-yahoo-pipes/ The NOS (Dutch public broadcasting system) recently launched a mobile application for their website. This includes their TV news show, Internet news feeds as well as weather forecasts, traffic information and an interface to Teletext. Of course I had to give it a go on my Nokia N95 8GB and I ... http://geekblok.com/2008/06/03/nos-mobile-software/ Last week I had to design a table where I’d liked to specify the with of a table. I used to do this by giving a class to the columns of the table like: <table> <tr> <td class=”col1″>some data</td> <td class=”col2″>some more data</td> </tr> </table> And then to specify the layout of the td classes col1 and ... http://geekblok.com/2008/06/03/html-colgroup-and-col/ I’ve mentioned FireEagle on this blog before and after I’m glad to see the first useful applications come up! Recently I’ve visited Switzerland and Germany and used FireEagle and in both places, I’ve used the awesome new website called wikinear. First, find yourself an open WiFi network and update your location. ... http://geekblok.com/2008/04/28/wikinear/ At home, the only way to reach my server on the attic from the ground floor seemed to be wireless. At least that is what I used for about a year. The connection let me down quite often, most likely because of the crappy wireless card I have in it ... http://geekblok.com/2008/04/14/ethernet-over-power-homeplug/ BOK surprised me with an invitation email about a website I never noticed. The small mail suggested that I should check it out and maybe write a little about it here, due to absence of BOK this weekend. So I did check it out and had no clue what to expect. ... http://geekblok.com/2008/04/13/evernote/ Today I received an invitation for Searchme. While currently in REAL beta (as they call it themselves), it looks very promising. The search index is around one billion pages (and growing each day) so not everything can be found (but hey, Geekblok is in there!). Nonetheless this looks very cool and ... http://geekblok.com/2008/03/20/searchme-visual-search/ For too long, I have ran around with cellphones that weren’t considered hip or cool. Only once before did I have a camera on my phone, but without an USB cable or bluetooth, transferring the horrible quality pictures were a no-go area. Time to change that! And so I did. ... http://geekblok.com/2008/03/15/b10m-going-mobile/